Saturday, February 11, 2023

 

Onomatopeia

Persius 5.13 (tr. Susanna Morton Braund):
Nor do you strain to burst your swollen cheeks with a pop!

nec scloppo tumidas intendis rumpere buccas.
Scloppus is "The sound made in striking something full of air," according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary, which cites only this passage.

Commentum Cornuti (Clausen and Zetzel p. 112):
stloppo dixit metaphoricos a ludentibus pueris qui buccas inflatas subito aperiunt et totum simul flatum cum sonitu fundunt.
Stloppus also occurs in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae 1.57 (ed. Martin Hertz in Heinrich Keil, Grammatici Latini, vol. II, p. 43).

Cf. Neo-Latin sclopetum = firearm, gun.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 6:34 AM


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